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== Course description == | == Course description == | ||
In Semantics 1, we showed how to arrive at an interpretation for simple English sentences. In this follow-up course the participants will extend their analytic skills to more advanced phenomena, such as: | |||
* scope ambiguity ("Everything that glitters isn't gold.") | |||
* the semantics of embedded clauses | |||
* semantic concord phenomena (as in substandard "nobody ain't doin' nothing") | |||
* the semantics of modal auxiliaries ("must", "can", ...) | |||
* idioms and collocations | |||
== Entrance test == | == Entrance test == | ||
Revision as of 22:15, 13 September 2016
Course description
In Semantics 1, we showed how to arrive at an interpretation for simple English sentences. In this follow-up course the participants will extend their analytic skills to more advanced phenomena, such as:
- scope ambiguity ("Everything that glitters isn't gold.")
- the semantics of embedded clauses
- semantic concord phenomena (as in substandard "nobody ain't doin' nothing")
- the semantics of modal auxiliaries ("must", "can", ...)
- idioms and collocations
Entrance test
In order to participate in the course you need to send your solutions to the following test to sailer@em.uni-frankfurt.de no later than October 5, 2016.
WiSe1617-Semanitcs2-EntranceTest.pdf
Notifications of admission will be sent out by October 12.
You can find some help on the page with the mock exam for the Semantics 1 class of the summer term 2015: mock exam SoSe 2015